F inally, rounding up the year that has gone by, here goes our list of Top 10 Short Films of 2013 based on festival selections and popularity:
A still from Kush
Kush by Shubhashish Bhutiani
One of the long-listed live action shorts at the 86th Academy Awards, Shubhashish Bhutiani’s Kush, set during the 1984 riots post the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, is a tale of a class of ten year olds and a teacher who takes up the task of protecting the only Sikh boy on the school bus. Bhutiani’s diploma film at the School of Visual Arts, New York, won the Orizzonti award for Best Short Film at the prestigious Venice Film Festival as well as the Grand Jury prize at the South Asian International Film Festival (Saiff).
Read Shubhashish Bhutiani’s interview
Love.Love.Love by Sandhya Daisy Sundaram
Ftii student Sandhya Daisy Sundaram, under the Cinetrain project,...
A still from Kush
Kush by Shubhashish Bhutiani
One of the long-listed live action shorts at the 86th Academy Awards, Shubhashish Bhutiani’s Kush, set during the 1984 riots post the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, is a tale of a class of ten year olds and a teacher who takes up the task of protecting the only Sikh boy on the school bus. Bhutiani’s diploma film at the School of Visual Arts, New York, won the Orizzonti award for Best Short Film at the prestigious Venice Film Festival as well as the Grand Jury prize at the South Asian International Film Festival (Saiff).
Read Shubhashish Bhutiani’s interview
Love.Love.Love by Sandhya Daisy Sundaram
Ftii student Sandhya Daisy Sundaram, under the Cinetrain project,...
- 1/6/2014
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Huma Qureshi in “Sujata”
It doesn’t happen too often that you can walk up to a theatre, buy a ticket and watch short films. “Shorts” presents one of such rare opportunities to watch short films the way films should be watched!
The films which make “Shorts” were meant to be short films and just that. And that’s why each of these films have a distinct voice of their own. Don’t look for thematic continuity or similarity in style. The five films are highly individualistic, divergent and that’s what makes for an engaging viewing. The curator of the package should also be congratulated for presenting such an eclectic mix of some of the recent short films from India.
Sujata by Shlok Sharma
Shlok truly dazzles with his command over the medium. He plays around with time like a master and his camera reveals only as much as...
It doesn’t happen too often that you can walk up to a theatre, buy a ticket and watch short films. “Shorts” presents one of such rare opportunities to watch short films the way films should be watched!
The films which make “Shorts” were meant to be short films and just that. And that’s why each of these films have a distinct voice of their own. Don’t look for thematic continuity or similarity in style. The five films are highly individualistic, divergent and that’s what makes for an engaging viewing. The curator of the package should also be congratulated for presenting such an eclectic mix of some of the recent short films from India.
Sujata by Shlok Sharma
Shlok truly dazzles with his command over the medium. He plays around with time like a master and his camera reveals only as much as...
- 7/12/2013
- by Bikas Mishra
- DearCinema.com
In a rare initiative, PVR Director’s Rare is releasing an anthology of five short films produced by Anurag Kashyap and Guneet Monga in 13 cities across India today. The anthology will have 31 shows daily on 29 screens pan-India.
Shorts will release in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Surat, Chandigarh, Nagpur, Indore and Cochin.
“Shorts in spite of being a collection of 5 shorts films packaged in a feature film format has been able to generate good interest amongst the movie going audience especially short filmmakers and aspiring filmmakers. Add to it the fan following of Anurag Kashyap and the star cast, we decided to open the film in relatively more screens. We are enthusiastic about the release and with this, PVR Director’s Rare becomes the first and only theatrical distributor of Short Films in the country. We are working to make it a regular feature of our programming,...
Shorts will release in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Surat, Chandigarh, Nagpur, Indore and Cochin.
“Shorts in spite of being a collection of 5 shorts films packaged in a feature film format has been able to generate good interest amongst the movie going audience especially short filmmakers and aspiring filmmakers. Add to it the fan following of Anurag Kashyap and the star cast, we decided to open the film in relatively more screens. We are enthusiastic about the release and with this, PVR Director’s Rare becomes the first and only theatrical distributor of Short Films in the country. We are working to make it a regular feature of our programming,...
- 7/12/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
PVR Director’s Rare will release a pack of five award winning short films produced by Anurag Kashyap and Guneet Monga on July 12, 2013.
Sujata by Shlok Sharma, Shor by Neeraj Ghaywan, Mehfuz by Rohit Pandey, Audacity by Anirban Roy and The Epilogue by Siddharth Gupt are the films to release under this initiative.
Neeraj Ghaywan’s Shor featuring Ratnabali Bhattacharjee and Amardeep Jha won the Satyajit Ray Foundation Short Film Award 2012 at the London Indian Film Festival. Chronicling the struggle of a migrant couple from Benaras in the ghettos of Mumbai, the film was named the Best Short Film at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) 2012 and South Asian International Film Festival in 2011.
Mehfuz by Rohit Pandey featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui won the second prize in Muhr AsiaAfrica Shorts section at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2011. It went on to screen at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles...
Sujata by Shlok Sharma, Shor by Neeraj Ghaywan, Mehfuz by Rohit Pandey, Audacity by Anirban Roy and The Epilogue by Siddharth Gupt are the films to release under this initiative.
Neeraj Ghaywan’s Shor featuring Ratnabali Bhattacharjee and Amardeep Jha won the Satyajit Ray Foundation Short Film Award 2012 at the London Indian Film Festival. Chronicling the struggle of a migrant couple from Benaras in the ghettos of Mumbai, the film was named the Best Short Film at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) 2012 and South Asian International Film Festival in 2011.
Mehfuz by Rohit Pandey featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui won the second prize in Muhr AsiaAfrica Shorts section at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2011. It went on to screen at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles...
- 6/21/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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